Baby is only three weeks old but thinking ahead a bit here and looking for some advice/experiences/opinions...
I know the guidance is baby sleeps in our room until six months and we've got him in a next to me crib in the bedroom.
The evening goes one of two ways at the minute. We bath, change and feed at around 6.30 and then try to settle him downstairs (we have a rocker/crib that he sleeps in during the day) Either he settles quickly and then we eat and relax a bit downstairs before moving him up when we go to bed. Or other times he just won't settle and we take it in turns to eat and then I admit defeat and go upstairs with him about 8 and lay on the bed as he sleeps (quite often falling asleep myself haha) The thing I've noticed is that he always settles really quickly in the bedroom compared to the living room. So ideally it would be good to do the bath, bottle and settle straight in to the crib but at the moment this means me going up to bed for 7pm (which although I'd happily sleep from 7 at this point it would be nice to eat and see my husband too!) We have got a video monitor with breathing sensor etc and I thought about working towards settling him upstairs and having that on whilst we sat downstairs. Being a first time mum and not wanting to do the wrong thing or break any rules haha I've frantically googled this and couldn't find a definitive answer so I asked the health visitor at our appointment this morning and her response was "official guidance is that they are in the same room as you at all times until six months but it's up to you what you do with that." So now I'm even more confused! Do I go up to bed at 7 with baby for next 6 months? Do I use a video monitor? Do we persevere with attempting to settle downstairs and then move up? Interested to hear what others did from a confused first time mum!
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countdowntobaby2020 · 30/06/2020 11:09
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